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Krish

Leonard Krishtalka - Vertebrate Paleobiology
Director, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center
Professor
Ph.D., Texas Tech University
Phone: (785) 864-4540
Fax: (785) 864-5335


Area of Interest and Research

  • Science policy and administration
  • Biodiversity informatics for collection-based institutions
  • Paleobiology of mammals, especially Paleogene primates, insectivores, marsupials and other groups.

 

Representative Publications

Krishtalka, L. 1993. Anagenetic Angst: Species Boundaries in Eocene Primates. pp. 331-344 in, B. Kimbel and L. Martin, eds., Species, Species Concepts and Primate Evolution. Plenum Press, NY.
Krishtalka, L. and P. S. Humphrey. 1998. Fiddling while the Planet Burns: The Challenge for U. S. Natural History Museums. Museum News, 77(2):29-35.

Krishtalka, L. and P. S. Humphrey. 2000. Can natural history museums capture the future? BioSciences 50(7) 611-617.

Krishtalka, L. Knowledge Networking of Biodiversity Information. 2000. In Access to Publicly Funded Research. (pp. 188-194), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam.

Krishtalka, L. 2001. Answering the Aliens: Museum Biodiversity Education, Curator, 43(2):103-110 [Journal dated April 2000 but published in December 2001].

Donoghue, M., S. Gilbert, V. Irish, T. Kaufmann, T. Kocker, L. Krishtalka, M. Lane, M. Levine, W. McGinnis, M. Puruggana, N. Sinha, and G. Wray. 2001. Evolution of development and Tree of Life, http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/bio012

Krishtalka, L. 2002. Information technology and the ten grand research challenges for the 21st Century. Ch 30:319-338 in Teich, A. H., S. D. Nelson, and S. Lita (eds.), AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook, American Association for the Advancement of Science (also, http://www.aaas.org/spp/yearbook/2002/ch30.pdf.

Krishtalka, L., T. Peterson, D. Viegalis, J. Beach, and E. Wiley. 2002. The Green Internet: A Tool for Conservation Science. In Conservation in the Internet Age: Strategic Threats and Opportunities, pp. 143-164, J. Levitt (ed.). Island Press, Washington, DC.

Krishtalka, L., F. Harris, et al. 2002. Long Term Ecological Research Program: Twenty-Year Review. A report to the National Science Foundation, pp. 39, NSF, Arlington, VA.